A Warren man identified by Warren police as a Boy Scout leader faces three third-degree felony counts of corruption of minors.

Ryan Zavinski, 24, of Warren was charged with three-counts of third-degree felony corruption of minors – defendant age 18 or above, four counts of corruption of minors and three counts of indecent exposure after an investigation by Warren police officers. Police say the incidents took place July 10, according to online court docket information.

Zavinski was charged Tuesday and arraigned by Magisterial District Justice Laura Bauer. He was released on his own recognizance on nonmonetary bail conditions. According to online court docket information, a preliminary hearing will be held Aug. 6 in front of Judge Bauer.

Zavinski is also listed on the Warren County School District website as a teacher at Beaty Warren Middle School.

According to the Affidavit of Probable Cause, the charges stem from a party at Zavinski’s home following an Eagle Scout ceremony June 8-9. Police allege Zavinski provided alcohol to minors and suggested playing a version of a board game that resulted in various participants – including Zavinski – being nude during the game. Parents reported the allegations to Warren police after Zavinski, according to the police report, made phone calls the parents found strange. Parents also told police they contacted another scout leader who reportedly told them, according to the Affidavit of Probable Cause, that Zavinski allegedly admitted to exposing himself to the youths during a conversation at a Fourth of July party. The scout leader, according to the affidavit, confirmed the parents account when interviewed July 29. The scout leader told police that shortly after the July 4 party they and a third male scout leader talked with Zavinski and Zavinski allegedly again confirmed he provided alcohol to the minors and was nude in front of the youths.

The youths, according to the affidavit, admitted during a forensic interview July 24 that Zavinski had given them alcohol at his home and that Zavinski was nude while playing the game at the June 8-9 gathering.

The Boy Scouts’ $2.4 billion bankruptcy reorganization plan took effect in 2023, allowing the organization to keep operating while compensating the more than 80,000 men who say they were sexually abused as children while in scouting.

The sale of the Elk Lick Scout Reserve in Smethport, Pa. — approved unanimously in 2021 by the Allegheny Highlands Council — satisfied the council’s roughly $900,000 required contribution to the Boy Scouts of America sex abuse settlement. The Allegheny Highlands Council also operates Camp Merz in Mayville, which didn’t operate as a camp this summer, and serves Chautauqua, Cattaraugus and Allegany counties in New York and McKean and Potter counties in Pennsylvania.

The Chief Cornplanter Council in Warren County did not have to sell any properties. Instead, it liquidated some assets growing on land it owed to pay its $260,931.32 contribution.